Kentrocapros
Sign in to saveKentrocapros is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Aracanidae, the deepwater boxfishes or temperate boxfishes. These fishes are found in the coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy · GBIF
Yellowstriped Boxfish
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- OrderTetraodontiformes
- FamilyAracanidae
Observations2
Groupactinopterygii
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Kentrocapros is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Aracanidae, the deepwater boxfishes or temperate boxfishes. These fishes are found in the coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Kentrocarpos was first proposed as a monospecific subgenus of Aracana in 1855 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup with Ostracion hexagonus as its only species. O. hexagonus was originally described in 1787 by Carl Peter Thunberg with its type locality given as Japan. This was later found to be a synonym of O. cubicus aculeatus, described by Martinus Houttuyn in 1782 from Nagasaki. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Aracanidae which is in the suborder Ostracioidea within the order Tetraodontiformes.